Reports state that the ambassador and others were suffocated. Specifically, how were they suffocated? Were they choked to death as US Marines stood by? Were the Marines ordered to withhold fire? If so, why?
The first job of the Marine guards in the embassies is not to protect the personnel.
Exactly...what were our Marines doing then? Are there more casualties?
Marines don’t stand by....
The two unidentified “staffers” were Marine guards, they died of gunshot wounds. They killed many of the attackers before they were kia protecting Ambassador Stevens.
The group of four went to the consulate to evacuate the staffers there. They were ambushed on the way there by a heavily armed force. It was a planned ambush. The RPG disabled the vehicle and a running firefight began.
Ambassador Stevens was carried to a nearby hospital by Libyans and died of either smoke inhalation or some other form of suffocation...
A Marine QRF (Quick Reaction Force) is there now.